Director IT Strategy Consulting AI

Role Overview

Gartner Consulting is seeking a Engagement Manager with deep fluency in artificial intelligence to lead high-impact client engagements at the intersection of strategy technology and enterprise transformation. This is a client-facing leadership role responsible for shaping AI strategy guiding delivery teams and translating Gartners research and proprietary methodologies into measurable business outcomes for large enterprise and public-sector clients. The ideal candidate for this role has had hands-on experience successfully deploying AI in enterprise environments and can advise clients on the critical success factors and common pitfalls of complex AI deployments. The Director operates as a trusted advisor to C-suite stakeholders (CIO CDAO CTO CEO) and a driving force behind the growth of Gartners AI Center of Excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

Client Delivery & Advisory

• Lead complex AI engagements as engagement manager end-to-endfrom opportunity scoping and diligence through solution design roadmap development and implementation oversightensuring rigor quality and on-time delivery.

• Serve as the primary executive point of contact for clients building durable relationships with senior stakeholders and acting as a credible authority on enterprise AI adoption.

• Translate ambiguous business problems into structured decision-ready recommendations distinguishing genuine signal from hype in a rapidly evolving AI landscape.

• Guide clients through technical AI enablement strategy operating-model design workflow transformation and use-case prioritization data-readiness evaluation architecture and responsible-AI governance.

• Pull from prior experience to advise clients with respect to opportunities and risks/constraints/trade-offs in deploying AI at enterprise scale

AI Domain Leadership

• Maintain hands-on fluency across the modern AI stack: generative AI and LLMs agentic architectures RAG machine learning MLOps/LLMOps data platforms and the leading hyperscaler and vendor ecosystems (Microsoft/Azure OpenAI Google AWS OpenAI Anthropic etc.).

• Provide technical depth of one or more AI-enabled platforms (e.g. Copilot Studio ServiceNow Agentforce Bedrock Sana Azure AI Foundry Google Vertex AI Gemini Enterprise OpenAI Enterprise Claude for Enterprise Microsoft 365 Copilot Glean Moveworks Writer Dataiku DataRobot Palantir AIP UiPath IBM watsonx Databricks Mosaic AI Snowflake Cortex) and integration with other enterprise systems

• Advise on AI strategy and value realizationlinking technology choices to ROI TCO risk posture and change-management implications.

• Shape AI governance and responsible-AI frameworks including model risk data privacy security regulatory alignment.

• Stay ahead of market movements feeding emerging trends back into Gartner research IP and client conversations.

Business Development & Growth

• Support business development - driving pipeline generation proposal development scoping and closing of AI-focused consulting engagements.

• Partner with Gartner Consulting partners and account teams to identify and convert opportunities expanding footprint within existing accounts and opening new logos.

• Contribute to thought leadershippoints of view workshops symposium sessions and reusable accelerators that differentiate Gartner in the market.

Team & Capability Building

• Lead mentor and develop multidisciplinary consulting teams setting delivery standards and growing internal AI capability.

• Contribute to the AI Center of Excellence building case studies offerings and repeatable methodologies that scale across regions and industries.

Required Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in management consulting technology strategy or enterprise transformation with a substantial and recent focus on AI/data.

• Demonstrated ability to lead C-level conversations and sell/deliver multimillion-dollar engagements.

• Depth of experience in one or more industries (i.e. manufacturing financial services healthcare high-tech professional services public sector).

• Strong technical literacy: able to engage credibly with IT leaders and engineers while translating for business executives.

• Proven track record in AI strategy data strategy operating-model design or large-scale AI/ML implementation.

• Bachelors degree required; advanced degree (MBA MS in CS/Data Science or equivalent) strongly preferred.

• Exceptional structured-thinking executive-communication and storyline/deck-building skills.

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